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Show Tuesday December 17,1957 DRAGERTON TRIBUNE The story behind fhe news. These photographs dramatically show how . . This story is one of pioneering in new research fields, of scientific experiments, of trial and error, a story involving the expenditure of many millions of dollars. smoke is being stopped in its tracks right in the open hearth stacks before it reaches the air at the Geneva Works of United States Steel Corporation. The element fluorine largely has been stopped from reaching Utah skies by installation of specially-designed cleansing units. Fluorine is contained in the Utah-mineores used at Geneva. In critical amounts, it sometimes can be harmful to cattle eating the substance in their feed. Fluorosis, the disease sometimes caused among cattle by an of fluorine, appeared to be a matter of seri- ous concern to agriculd The stacks at the right, from which virtually all dusts and gases have been eliminated, are typical of the clean smokestacks at the Geneva open hearth furnaces and the sintering plant. The photograph at the left shows how these same stacks appeared before Geneva learned the smoke contained fluorine and before steps were taken to eliminate it. stacks at Geneva have been These virtually clean since the spring of 1955. But the cleared the air for story of how Columbia-Genev- a its neighbors has never been fully told before . Now the storv can be told. once-smok- y over-abundan- ce This effort, which came to be known as Operation Good Neighbor because its aim was cooperation with Genevas neighbors, achieved its goal to reduce emissions of fluorine to a safe level more than two years ago. But the research, the tests, the agricultural experi- ments will go on to continue to make the Geneva Works a good neighbor now and for generations to come. Operation Good Neighbor is pioneering for prosperity the modern way. ture in central Utah. As soon as Geneva learned of the presence of the fluorine late in 1950 officials ordered an all-oproject to find out what was causing the problem and how to correct it. No steel plant in America had ever encountered a similar problem before, so U.S-Steel began its research pioneering from scratch. ut This is a success story. Harmful smoke ha.1 been controlled at Geneva. Industry and agri culture thrive side by side, and Geneva continues to make steel for the nation, to provide jobs for more than 7,000 Utah citizens, to bolster the states economy. . GENEVA WORKS IUJ fKUl Tf 1 - ir ft ir COLUMBIA-GENEV- j STEEL DIVISION A ir d Ilk |